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Extracting data in between strings...

jmckinzie — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:20:07 GMT

I have a variable called WebJump in a perl script.

When i print the content it gives me this:

T
his page is used to hold your data while you are being authorized for your reque
st.

You will be forwarded to continue the authorization process. If this
does not happen automatically, please click the Continue button below.

I want to print everthing between START and END and then reassign it to my WebJump variable.

Any ideas?

Re: Extracting data in between strings...

Jannik — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:03:58 GMT

This might point you in the right direction:
http://www.wellho.net/forum/Perl-Programming/return-part-of-a-string-that-matches-a-pattern.html

like this:
$WebJump =~ /START(.*)END/;
print "We got $1 out of that!\n";

Re: Extracting data in between strings...

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:43:18 GMT

Hi Jody:

I assume from the content that you truly want everything between the strings START and END, disregarding any newline boundries.

Using a copy-and-paste of your data :

# echo ${WebJump}|perl -000 -nle 'print $1 if m/.*START(.*)END.*/s'

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Extracting data in between strings...

Suraj Singh_1 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:21:14 GMT

Hi,

Where-ever the variable 'WebJump' has this value, use the following lines in your perl script:

if($WebJump =~ /START(.*)END/s) {
print "Stuff between 'START' and 'END': $1\n"
}

- Suraj

Re: Extracting data in between strings...

jmckinzie — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:58:17 GMT

I needed to add a cookie container.

# Open Cookie Object
my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new(
file => "/adminweb/usm/tlrs/cookies.t",
autosave => 1,
);